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  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Two stories about parents doing everything they can for their kids.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 51:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Charisse Arrington, Credit: Shefik
Hope - Charisse Arrington is a R&B singer who was signed to MCA Records in the 1990s. Her biggest success was with the single "Down With This" whic...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2022
  • Length: 04:21
Caption: Neal Bennington, Credit: Shefik
Destiny - Neal Bennington founded Broadway Sings for Pride, in response to tragic suicides within the LGBTQ+ community. The live concert series has...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 03:18
Caption: unhappy masked man, Credit: https://snappygoat.com/free-public-domain-images-man_depressed_hoodie_unhappy/rbaXF2P4I275TeGAlqcCb1xcuuBZmgLxsv7PXwyGPcX1.html#,0,0.73b9015dfe5a5122dd72979ddbb7ad50a2964544
The COVID 19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives in some way. But some are feeling the impacts more than others. Take healthcare workers, for...

Bought by Radio Catskill, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A seven-year-old uses his compassion and his cuteness to get dogs adopted.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:28
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A Grand Rapids, Michigan man is using the power of instant shopping and delivery for good and sharing how he does it, with the world.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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A San Francisco Man uses social media to connect the homeless with their families.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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One man's Grandma becomes a social media icon for humerous advice.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Listener, Mike Duffy of Manchester, NH, describes how listening to TAL episode about Sissies prompted him to come out to father.

Bought by Tri States Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Within the first days of the First Lebanon War, two families become unfortunately intertwined through the coincidence of their name.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:26
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Meet hustler La’Kia Young. She could be anyone, anywhere with a past paved in rubble and pain but her perseverance proves that failure isn't final.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 21:12
Caption: Playwright Eric Ulloa with his first interview subject, Joanie, Credit: Eric Ulloa
In the aftermath of the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, actor and writer Eric Ulloa went to Newtown, Connecticut and asked the re...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Lana Williams is serving life without parole. Here she describes a typical day.

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:39
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“I was born a girl, I was born black, and I was born to two alcoholic parents. I knew I was doomed.”

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 22:40
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A piece exploring the Young People's Theatre Project's summer theater production, which brings 6th-12th graders into the wilderness to produce a mu...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 17:38
Caption: Ken Nerger (Detail), Credit: Emile B. Klein
Surviving cancer, the economy and a haunted house.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 09:26
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Bobby talks with Adam Rutkowski, a shit-talking Polish Long Islander who lost his house to Hurricane Sandy, and Tony (no last name provided), a hom...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:35:45
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Dianne Dettmann's new book chronicles a widow's journey through grief and to recovery.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 20:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Violinist Eugene Drucker reads an excerpt from his debut novel, THE SAVIOR (reissued in Paperback on July 8, 2008).

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 1
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To some death is the great equalizer; for others it is the least judicious parting of them all. A poem.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2008
  • Length: :42
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This week's stories are about failure and success, often entwined.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 30:04